Milk-top remover.



v E A. SIMMS. MILK TOP REMOVER.

APPLICATION TILED MAB. 4, 1910.

Patented Sept. 20, 1910.

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MILK-T01 REMOVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 4, 1910. Serial No. 547,238.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERSKINE A. SIMMB, a

- citizen of the United States, and a resident .of-Belmont, in thecounty of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Top Removers, of which thefollowand it relates to certain details'of construction hereinafter setforth.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this. specification, Figure lisa vertical sectionof the upper part of a milk jar, showing itsseal-disk about to be removed by a device made in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a face view of a modification of the same. Fig. 3is a similar view of still another modification. Fig. 4 is an edge viewof the preferred form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a face view of thelocking cap used in the preferred form. a

As shown i1 Fig. 1, the milk jar 1 is formed with a slightly overhungmouth 2 closed by the seal-disk 3. The seal remover comprises a handle 5having a plurality of barbed points 6, preferably two, projectingtherefrom. By thrusting these points, or tines, down through the disk 3,the barbs 7 thereof engage the disk as they are drawn upward, andthereby remove it with them.

Inmy preferred construction, that shown in Fig. 1, the handle 5 is ofwood iven a substantially handle-shape as viewe in the position hereillustrated, but made flat and thin, as shown in Fig.4.

I -prefer to make the points 6 as the extremities of a single length ofwire bent parallelwith each other, as in Figs. 1 and 2, and secure it tothe wooden'handle in the following manner: In the lower end of thehandle 5, and parallel with the flat faces thereof, is sawed a narrowslit 8 fitted to tightly receive the wire 9. After the wire bident hasbeen ressed up into this slit, one or more nai s or pins 10 are drivenbe bent over into the handle as in through the wood close beneath thewire for preventing the bidents withdrawal. This permits the bidentsbeing swung up as shown in Fig. 4, until its barbs engage notches 11 inthe edges of the handle, and so retain the bident in such position. Thisfits the remover for transportation and storage; and considerablyreducing the cost of packaging them when sold at retail.

To retain the bident 6 in its usable position, I provide a sheet metalcap 12 for fastening over the end of the handle, and having notches 13in its ends adapted to be engaged by the bident, as in Figs. 1 and 5,and thereby keep the latter rigidly in line with the handle. This cap ispreferably formed with spurs 14 at its edges ada ted to ig. 4, forsecurin it in place.

Ordinari y, the wire bident rests in said notches 13 and .is capable ofindefinite use without accidental disengagement; but when it is desiredto swing the bident up beside the handle, the wire can be easily sprungapart sufficiently to withdraw its members from said notches and permitthe desired act. 4

In the construction set forth in Fig. 2, the handle 5 is of sheet metalhaving s ms 15 struck up therefrom, beneath which t e fork can befastened to the handle".

In Fig. 3 is illustrated a form of the invention wherein a single lengthof wire composes both the handle and the points. The handlesection 5" isjoined to the points by shoulders 16, the purpose of which is to providemeans for pressing the impaled disk back again into the 'ar, in case thehousewife wishes to close t e jar after the use of a part of itscontents. This gives the remover the function of a handle to' remain inthe disk so long as desired.

In the constructions set forth in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower ends of thehandles serve the'pur ose of the shoulders just described.

I prefer to make the handles of wood and flat, in order to emplo thesame for advertising purposes, as ilustrated in Fig. 1. The woodis notonly inexpensive, but permits the ready printing thereon of advertisingmatter.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1, the barbs 7 are made to face eachother 1n order to permit their engagement with the wooden handle whenturned up; the latter serving Patented Sept. 20, 1910.

both to hold thebident thus adjusted,.ai1d to guard the barbs frominjuring anything when so placed.

What I claim as my invention and for which I desire Letters Patent is asfollows,

to wit 1. A Ini1k-t0p remover comprising a han dle, a Wire bent into aU-shape having its extremities sharpened, and means pivotally securingthe same to said handle and fastening it rigid therewith.

2. A milk top remover coin rising. a handle; and a single length of wlrebent into a U-shape' and having its extremities sharp-' and barbed,means pivotally securing the intermediate section of the Wire to thehandle and notched locking means for normally holding said sharpenedends projecting from the handle.

4:. A milk top remover comprising a flat handle having a notch in itsend, a single length of Wire bent into a U-shape and having its endssharpened and barbed, means for fastening the intermediate section ofsaid wire in said notch, and-a terminally notched metal plate adapted tobe fastened upon the notched end of the handle, and to receive the wiremembers in its said notches. In testimony that I claim the foregoinginvention, I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of February, 1910.v ERSKINE A. SIMMS.

l/Vitnesses:

ALBERT F. AMEE, (101m B. HENNAN.

